Classical Works Knowledge Base

The CWKB knowledge base assembles data about Classical works (1,550
authors and 5,200 texts, with variants forms in the main modern
languages of Classical studies and common abbreviations). The knowledge
base also contains the linking heuristics to the passage level for 6,732
manifestations of Classical works. The full-text services linked to
are:

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.